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2015

Congrats to CS Student Kyle Amoroso on his win in the online hackathon on ChallengePost, Reinvent the Selfie! His hack called, Game Boy Selfie won the MLH prize! Congrats Kyle on your national online hackathon win![July 2015]

Professor Jan Wiebe has been named the General Chair of the 2016 Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Conference (EMNLP-2016).
[July 2015]

Professors Wang, Menekse, and Litman are collaborating with grad students on an exciting new project, CourseMIRROR! CourseMIRROR improves student-instructor interactions in large-classrooms and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) via mobile interfaces and natural language processing. CourseMIRROR facilitates learning at scale by enabling students to reflect in-situ via mobile devices. It also helps instructors to capture the gist of reflections effectively via natural language processing. CourseMIRROR is free and supports major mobile platforms and PCs. Please visit http://www.coursemirror.com for more details.[June 2015]

It is with a heavy heart that we inform you of the sudden passing of the CS Department's long time Part-Time Instructor George Jucha. George was an award winning PTI, who had an excellent work ethic and loved helping students, sometimes staying 2 hours after class to help them. Many of his past students have said that he was their favorite instructor at Pitt. We will miss him deeply.[June 2015]

Professor Jan Wiebe is the Academic Keynote Speaker at the Canadian AI Conference 2015 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.[June 2015]

88 more students declare as a Computer Science major since January 2015! The CS Department grows as the demand for computer scientists is on the rise! Recent studies show that a degree in computer science is now the 3rd most in-demand and valuable degree in the United States! [May 2015]

It is with extreme sadness that we share the news that Dr. Robert Daley has passed away this week. Dr. Daley was a professor in the Department of Computer Science for 40 years, and he was a valued member of the faculty. He contributed to the Department in countless ways, and we will remember him always for his devotion to the Department, his sincere kindness, and his homemade honey. http://goo.gl/HlJ7Zi and http://goo.gl/B4L1jc [April 2015]

Congrats to all of the Computer Science students that entered the Randall Family Big Idea Competition! The Department of Computer Science had the most students enter the competition out of any other department in the Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences! A special congrats to the CS students that made it to the 3rd & final round of the competition, Deeksha Gupta, Zhijie Wang, Ashish Juneja, Charles Kiorpes, David Tsui, David Duan and Tayane Silva Fernandes de Moura![April 2015]

Check out Pitt Computer Science student Elliot Spencer Bingol's work on bringing Homestead and West Homestead into the 21st century with digital government! Find the news article here.[April 2015]

Congratulations to Professor Panos Chrysanthis for receiving the Provost's Mentor Award! The Provost's Award for Excellence in Mentoring recognizes University of Pittsburgh faculty who demonstrate outstanding mentoring of graduate students. The University strives to train the next generation of professional scholars, and the faculty who provide both intellectual and personal leadership to support and promote personal and professional development to students are recognized by this award for their efforts. Only as many as four faculty members are given this award each year. Congrats to Panos on receiving this prestigious award!http://goo.gl/hd8vmq[April 2015]

The Class of 2015 is expected to be the largest graduating class the Computer Science Department has ever had, with an anticipated 107 graduates! The Department of Computer Science will hold its Graduation Reception on April 25th 2015. Congrats to the class of 2015! #LetsGoPittCS[April 2015]

Congrats to Pitt CS undergraduates Natalie Isenberg and Sylvia Ujwary on being a 2015 DAAD RISE recipient! (German Academic Exchange Service Research Internships in Science & Engineering)Through the DAAD RISE, these students will work with research groups at universities and top research institutions across Germany for a period of two to three months during the summer. [April 2015]

Congratulations to Professor Adam Lee and Doctoral Candidate Bill Garrison on their Mentor-Mentee Teaching Award! We are happy to announce that their proposal has been approved! Congrats! [April 2015]

Congratulations to Panos Chrysanthis and Alex Labrinidis on recieving a MCSI 2015 Research Seed Grant![March 2015]

Breaking the 300-Mark: CS Declared Majors are at an All-Time High This year the Department of Computer Science is proud to announce that we have over 300 declared CS students. This is the most declared CS majors that we have ever had in department history. With the realization that Computer Science and Computing is a huge part of our present, as well as our future, more and more students have been choosing computer science as their major. [March 2015]

The Department of Computer Science has ranked #52 according to US News and World Report Rankings on the best grad schools and #26 among public universities!. http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-schools/computer-science-rankings [March 2015]

CS DAY 2015 is right around the corner! March 27, 2015 is the 15th Annual Computer Science Day! Find out all the details at our CS Day Homepage.[March 2015]

SteelHacks - March 27th - 29th 2015! Department of Computer Science will host 150 students from Pitt, CMU, and Duquesne for SteelHacks[February 2015]

Announcing the CS Day Hackathon: SteelHacks The Department of Computer Science is partnering with the Pitt CS Club to bring you SteelHacks [February 2015]

We are proud to announce that NCWIT (National Center for Women and Information Technology) has selected the University of Pittsburgh’s Women in Computer Science (WiCS) group to receive a 2015 NCWIT Student Seed Fund award sponsored by Symantec. WiCS has been awarded $1,000 to support She Innovates, Pitt’s first all-women’s hackathon. Congratulations to WiCS![January 2015]

Department of Computer Science Alumnus Robert S. (Bob) Seiner (class of 1985) recently published his first book on Non-Invasive Data Governance™ (Technics Publications 2014). Bob has been the President & Principal of KIK Consulting and Education Services since 1997 serving Fortune 100/500 and international clients to improve how they manage their data and information as a valued and strategic asset. Congrats Bob!
[January 2015]

She Innovates Kick-off Party will be held on 1/30/2015 at 5pm-7pm in 5317 Sennott Square! Pitt's first all-women's hackathon![January 2015]

NCWIT Collegiate Award Applications Are Now Open
Sponsored by Hewlett-Packard, the NCWIT Collegiate Award honors outstanding undergraduate women for their computing and technical accomplishments. Awardees will receive a $7,500 cash award and a trip to the award ceremony at the 2015 NCWIT Summit in Hilton Head, South Carolina.
Apply at: http://www.aspirations.org/participate/college-students [January 2015]

2014

Department of Computer Science Alumnus Chad Lane (class of 2004) recently accepted a position as Assoc. Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His appointment will be in the Dept. of Educational Psychology, with joint appointments in Informatics and the Beckman Institute! Congrats Chad![December 2014]

SHE INNOVATES... The Department of Computer Science will be partnering with Innovation Institute, Pitt SWE, and Pitt WiCS to host Pitt's first all women's hackathon!! She Innovates will be held on 01/30/2015 - 02/01/2015 in the Sennott Square Building![December 2014]

The Mu chapter of Upsilon Pi Epsilon, the international honor society for the computing and information disciplines inducted four new members on November 20, 2014. Congratulations to the newest inductees: Dana Gipe, Alex Lederer, Peter Mash, and Haleigh Wright. [December 2014]

December Graduate Recognition and Reception to be held on Wednesday, December 10th, 2014 at 4:00pm![November 2014]

Brunch for Newly Declared CS Majors on 11/21/2014 @ 10:00am in 5317 Sennott Square! If you declared after January 2014, then you are invited!![November 2014]

CS welcomes high school students in Big Data Class on 11/19!![November 2014]

CS DAY 2015! CS DAY will be held on March 27th, 2015![November 2014]

Professors Alexandros Labrinidis and Panos K. Chrysanthis are co-investigators in the newly funded Center for Causal Modeling and Discovery of Biomedical Knowledge from Big Data (CCMD), which is one of the 12 new Centers of Excellence funded through NIH's Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) program.
NIH press release,
Pittsburgh Business Times, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
[October 2014]

Professor Alexandros Labrinidis is the co-author of a new review article, entitled Big Data and Its Technical Challenges, that was published in the July 2014 issue of the Communications of the ACM.
[July 2014]

Congratulations to Professor Alexandros Labrinidis on being a newly elected member of the Faculty Assembly for Natural Sciences from the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences. He will serve for three years.[May 2014]

Congratulations to Professor Adam Lee on becoming a tenured faculty member effective September 2014![May 2014]

2013

The Department of Computer Science has lost Alfs Berztiss, Professor Emeritus. Dr. Berztiss was hired during the departments early years in September 1970 and retired after 28 years with the department. Dr. Berztiss' retirement was featured in the Fall 1998 LINKS. He will be missed by the Computer Science community.
You can view the obituary Post Gazette , University Times.
[October 2013]

Second year graduate students John Wenskovitch (CS),Tim Luciani (CS), and Koonwah Chen (IS), and Professor G. Elisabeta Marai won the IEEE BIOVIS 2013 Data Contest Visualization Award at IEEE VIS in Atlanta, GA, for their paper and system "Fixing TIM: Identifying Functional Mutations in Protein Families through the Interactive Exploration of Sequence and Structural Data". Congratulations Pitt VIS team![October 2013]

Professor Daniel Mosse' will present for the University Honors College Friday Afternoon Lecture series on Friday, October 25th at 2:00pm, 3500 Cathedral of Learning. His talk is Energy-Aware Computing.[October 2013]

Graduate student Md. Abedul Haque and Professor G. Elisabeta Marai will be presenting their paper entitled "A Semi-Automated Method for Subject-Specific Modeling of the Spinal Canal from Computed Tomography Images and Dynamic Radiographs" at the EuroGraphics-sponsored 18th International Workshop on Vision, Modeling and Visualization VMV2013 on September 11, 2013.[September 2013]

Professor G. Elisabeta Marai (Computer Science) and Professor Kay Nieselt (Bioinformatics, University of Tuebingen) are Program Chairs for the 3rd IEEE Symposium on Biological Data Visualization (BioVis' 13), the premier venue for bioinformatics visualization. BioVis will take place on 13-14 October 2013, in Atlanta, GA as part of the IEEE Visualization Week.[August 2013]

Professor Diane Litman will be presenting a keynote address entitled "Enhancing the Effectiveness of Spoken Dialogue for STEM Education" at the Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE) Workshop on August 30, 2013. The SLATE workshop series is organized yearly by the International Speech Communication Association Special Interest Group.[July 2013]

The department is proud to announce that Professor Adam Lee has been honored with an Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation. He will use this grant to, “design computational tools that enable everyday users to better manage their system participation by understanding the interplay between security, privacy, and utility”. Congratulations Dr. Lee. [June 2013]

Graduate Student Andrew Adams and Professor Adam Lee were invited to present their paper entitled,"Combining Social Authentication and Untrusted Clouds for Private Location Sharing" at the SACMAT Conference held in Amsterdam, Holland on June 12-14 2013.[June 2013]

Graduate students Wencan Luo and Wenting Xiong, alumni undergraduate Jesse Thomason, and Professor Diane Litman will present 3 papers spanning both the 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies and its associated student research workshop. All events are held in Atlanta, Georgia from June 9-15.[May 2013]

Professor Sangyeun Cho and graduate student Juyoung Jung will present a paper entitled "Memorage: Emerging Persistent RAM based Malleable Main Memory and Storage Architecture," at the 27th ACM International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS) held in Eugene, Oregon from June 10-14 2013.[May 2013]

Professors Chrysanthis and Labrinidis are members of the advisory board that has founded the Pittsburgh DataWorks initiative, whose aim is to bring together organizations and people working on "big data" throughout southwestern PA, with the ultimate goal of supporting ongoing initiatives and attracting big data talent and investments to the US’s “most livable city”.[March 2013]

2012

On October 26th Professor John Ramirez was on a panel of faculty who received the 2012 Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award. You can hear from Ramirez's distinctive teaching philosophies, approaches, and classroom activities by following this link to his talk entitled, Learning Computer Science: From Idea to Mastery. [November 2012]

PHD student Socrates Demetriades and Professor Sangyeun Cho have been chosen to present their paper entitled, "Predicting Coherence Communication by Tracking Synchronization Points at Run Time" at the 45th Annual MICRO-45 Conference held in Vancouver Canada in December 2012.[November 2012]

Graduate student PJ Dillon and Professor Taieb Znati will be presenting their paper and poster entitled, “Towards an Architecture for Mobile Healthcare” at the 37th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN) held in Clearwater, Florida from October 22-25 2012.[August 2012]

Graduate student William C. Garrison III, Assistant Professor Adam J. Lee, and their collaborator Timothy L. Hinrichs will be presenting their publication entitled, "The Need for Application-Aware Access Control Evaluation,” in Proceedings of the New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW) held in Bertinoro, Italy in September 2012. [July 2012]

Professors Panos K. Chrysanthis and Alexandros Labrinidis, directors of the Advanced Data Management Technology Lab, were invited to the inaugural EMC University Day in Boston on June 11, 2012. At this very successful event, Prof. Labrinidis served on the Big Data panel, whereas their PhD students Lory Al Moakar and Thao N Pham participated in the Poster Session. Congratulations to Lory, whose poster finished 3rd in the best poster competition (after CMU and Cornell).
[June 2012]

On March 29. 2012, the Obama Administration unveiled its $200M Big Data R&D Initiative. Associate Professor Alexandros Labrinidis was part of a team of
leading data management researchers across the United States who co-wrote a community white paper on the Challenges and Opportunities with Big Data.The white paper, published earlier in March, will be discussed at a panel during the VLDB 2012 International Conference from August 27-31 in Istanbul. [May 2012]

CS Part-time faculty Paul Covaleski receives the Students' Choice Award from the College of General Studies Student Government. The award was presented on Friday, April 13th at the 20th Annual Excellence in CGS Reception.[April 2012]

Graduate student PJ Dillon has been selected to participate in the 2012 NYC Turing Fellows Summer Internship Program and matched with Sulia, a New York City company focusing on content organization. Let's offer him a big congratulations!You can find more information on the program at: Turing Fellows Summer Internship Program. [April 2012]

John Ramirez, CS Senior Lecturer, is one of 5 awarded the 2012 Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award. Dr. Ramirez was recognized for having a teaching style that encourages students to pursue intellectually demanding subjects. He is the second CS faculty, along with Dr. George Novacky ('93), to receive this award. Pitt ChronicleUniversity Times[February 2012]

Sangyeun Cho, CS Faculty, is elected as a Senior Member of IEEE. IEEE recognizes as Senior Members those IEEE members who have shown technical and professional excellence after being in professional practice for at least ten years.[January 2012]

2011

Adam M. Smith and Yao Sun (CS graduate students), Wen Xu (MS '11), James R. Faeder (Computational Systems & Biology faculty) and G. Elisabeta Marai (CS faculty) have received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Vis '11 Symposium on Biological Data Visualization for their paper RuleBender: Integrated Visualization for Biochemical Rule-Based Modeling. The paper describes the visual paradigms, algorithms, design and implementation decisions behind RuleBender, an open-source visual tool for constructing, debugging, simulating and analyzing rule-based biological models. The project is the result of a successful collaboration between visualization and biology researchers, and has been downloaded more than 160 times in the four months since its initial announcement.[October 2011]

In April 2011, Professor Kirk Pruhs gave the keynote invited talk, entitled Managing Power Heterogeneity, at TAPAS, the ICST Conference on Theory and Practice of Algorithms in (Computer) Systems.
In October 2011 he will give an invited talk/tutorial, entitled Green Computing Algorithmics, at FOCS, the IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science.
In April 2012 he will give an invited talk at LATIN, the Latin American Symposium on Theoretical Informatics.[September 2011]

Professor Diane Litman, CS Faculty, is honored as s Senior Member in the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-11). Senior Member status recognizes AAAI members who have achieved significant accomplishments within the field of artificial intelligence. She is one of only 25 AAAI members recognized as Senior Member this year.[August 2011]

CS and Physics & Astronomy faculty awarded a 4-year, $1.6M NSF Grant for Understanding the Universe through Scalable Navigation of a Galaxy of Annotations. This project will impact the ability to share astronomical data quickly and widely. Alexandros Labrinidis, Panos K. Chrysanthis, and Liz Marai will be working with Physics & Astronomy faculty Jeffrey Newman, Michael Wood-Vasey, and Arthur Kosowsky. [August 2011]

Jingtao WangAssistant Professor Jingtao Wang selected for the 12th annual Provost's Advisory Council on Instructional Excellence (ACIE). His proposal, Software as a Service for Mobile Computing is one of only eight to receive an ACIE award this year. Teaching Times Article[May 2011]

Sangyeun ChoAssociate Professor Sangyeun Cho selected for the 12th annual Provost's Advisory Council on Instructional Excellence (ACIE). His proposal, Cracking Personal Supercomputing is one of only eight to receive an ACIE award this year.Teaching Times Article[May 2011]

Department Chairman Daniel Mosse' and CS Faculty Diane Litman participated in the IBM Watson Symposium on March 30, 2011. This day-long symposium included discussions with Pitt and CMU experts in technology, health care, and law. Dr. Mosse' made opening remarks and Professor Litman was a panelist in the NLP forum. [March 2011]

Diane LitmanProfessor Diane Litman participates in the IBM Watson Symposium on March 30, 2011. Diane Litman was a panelist in the Natural Language Processing (NLP) forum, along with David Ferucci, PI of the deepQA/Watson Project for IBM; and Eric Nyberg, professor in CMU's Language Technology Institute. The symposium ended with the IBM Watson Presentation, Demonstration and Q&A Panel with a Jeopardy! challenge between Pitt student team, CMU student team, and Watson.[March 2011]

Panos ChrysanthisProfessor Panos Chrysanthis receives the Distinguished Scientist Award of the Asssociation of Computing Machinery (ACM). This distinction is for his contributions to the fields of computing and information technology. Panos is the first faculty member to receive this ACM award at the University of Pittsburgh.[August 2010]

Sangyeun Paul Cho is promoted to Associate Professor with tenure (effective September 1st, 2010). Sangyeun is going to be the 5th Associate Professor currently in our Department.[July 2010]

Professor Panos K. Chrysanthis was named the Program Chair for HDMS2010, Program Co-Chair for ODBASE2010 and Group PC Leader for EDBT2011.[July 2010]

Toward Formal, Risk-Aware AuthorizationAssistant Professor Adam Lee receives a four year NSF Award in the Trustworthy Computing Program. The Trustworthy Computing Program supports research and education activities that explore novel frameworks, theories, and approaches towards secure and privacy-preserving systems, recognizing that a number of intertwined scientific, technological, economic and sociological challenges must be overcome, if we are to realize a trustworthy computing future. [April 2010]

CAREER: Data-driven Bottom-Up Humanoid ArticulationsAssistant Professor Liz Marai receives an NSF CAREER grant. Her work under this grant will investigate in much more detail the human anatomy and dynamics to further progress in replicating human articulation capabilities. [April 2010]

Associate Professor Bruce Childers named the Program Chair for the LCTES 2010 - ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems and is being held in Stockholm, Sweden.[March 2010]

2009

Enabling Fast and Versatile Packet Processing for Future Larger-Scale NetworksAssistant Professor Sangyuen Cho receives a two-year NSF Award in the Division of Computer and Communication Foundations. This exploratory research addresses the increasingly more critical performance, power, and functional requirements of search operations in key inter-networking devices like routers and firewalls. [December 2009]

Word Sense and Multilingual Subjectivity AnalysisProfessor Janyce Wiebe received an NSF Award in the Robust Intelligence Program. The goal of this three year project is to investigate novel methods for subjectivity sense labeling, and to exploit the results in sense-aware subjectivity and sentiment analysis. [October 2009]

Detecting Deviations in Clinical Care in ICU data StreamsAssociate Professor Milos Hauskrecht with his collaborator Professor Gilles Clermont in the Department of Critical Care has received $1,521,570 for a 3-year grant from the National Institute of General Medical Studies (NIH) to study computational methods for detecting deviations in clinical care in intensive care unit (ICU) data. [October 2009]

Using Medical Records Repositories to Improve the Alert System DesignAssociate Professor Milos Hauskrecht was awarded a $1,137,679, 3-year grant from the National Library of Medicine (NIH) to develop and study a new computational framework from off-line evaluation and optimization of clinical alerting systems based on retrospective electronic health record data. [October 2009]

Rebecca Hwa is promoted to Associate Professor with tenure (effective September 1st, 2009). Rebecca became the 4th Associate Professor in our department.[September 2009]

Assistant Professor Liz Marai and other colleagues in the Center for Simulation and Modeling awarded the 2009 University Research Council (URC) Multidisciplinary Small Grant to establish a Program on Geriatric Research in Ambulatory and Cognitive Excellence (GRACE). Caterina Rosano, Bob Boudreau (Epidemiology), and Bill Layton (Mathematics) will contribute to this multidisciplinary research, scholarship, and creative endeavor.[September 2009]

Towards a Dynamic and Composable Model of TrustAssistant Professor Adam Lee received an NSF Award in the Trustworthy Computing Program. The Trustworthy Computing Program supports research and education activities that explore novel frameworks, theories, and approaches towards secure and privacy-preserving systems, recognizing that a number of intertwined scientific, technological, economic and sociological challenges must be overcome, if we are to realize a trustworthy computing future. [August 2009]

Professor Alexandros Labrinidis elected Secretary/Treasurer of ACM SIGMOD to serve a four-year term (July 2009 - June 2013). ACM SIGMOD, is the premier professional organization for database researchers and practitioners.[June 2009]

Prof. Janyce Wiebe has been named the Program Co-Chair for ACL-IJCNLP 2009, the premier conference in Computational Linguistics which is being held in Singapore in August.[June 2009]

Liz Marai
Congratulations to Liz Marai, Assistant Professor, for receiving the 2009 Provost’s Advisory Council on Instructional Excellence (ACIE) innovation in education award. Her proposal, Immersive Software Engineering, is one of only eleven to receive an ACIE award this year. [April 2009]

KyoungSoo ParkKyoungSoo Park joined the Computer Science Department as an Assistant Professor in the Spring of 2009. The goal of Dr. Park's research is to find and establish the fundamental principles in designing and improving the large-scale networked systems which impact the daily lives of millions of people. [January 2009]

2008

Adam LeeAdam Lee, Assistant Professor, a new faculty member, joined the Department in the fall of 2008. His research interests lie at the intersection of the computer security, privacy, and distributed systems fields.[August 2008]

CAREER: User-Centric Data ManagementAssociate Professor Alexandros Labrinidis received an award from the Faculty Early Career Development Program. The CAREER Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of the early career-development activities of those teacher-scholars who most effectively integrate research and eduction within the context of the mission of their organization.[July 2008]

CAREER: Robust Parsing for New Domains and LanguagesAssistant Professor Rebecca Hwa, received an award from the Faculty Early Career Development Program. The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of the early career-development activities of those teacher-scholars who most effectively integrate research and education within the context of the mission of their organization.[July 2008]

Kirk Pruhs, a Professor in our Department is the recipient of a 2008 IBM Faculty Award for his work, "Algorithms for Integrated Scheduling and Power Management."[June 2008]

2007

Ahmed Amer discussed his thoughts on the future of CD's in a recent issue of the Pitt Chronicle. View the full interview here.[September 2007]

Liz MaraiDr. Liz Marai joined the Computer Science Department as an Assistant Professor in the fall of 2007. Dr. Marai received her BS in Computer Science and Engineering from the "Politehnica" University in Bucharest, Romania. In May of 2007, she received her PhD from Brown University.[August 2007]

2006

Understanding Events and Beliefs Expressed in TextProfessor Janyce Wiebe will lead research in a University Affiliate Research Center funded by the Department of Homeland Security. The center has been awarded $2.4 million over the next three years to develop accurate and robust techniques for extracting and summarizing information about events and beliefs from text.[August 2006]

After years of networking research, Professor Taieb Znati, has become the NSF Director of the CNS (Division of Computer and Network Systems).[April 2006]

Center for Modeling Pulmonary ImmunityProfessor Panos K. Chrysanthis and Professor Alexandros Labrinidis will lead the bioinformatics effort in the recently established Center for Modeling Pulmonary Immunity. The center was established in September 2005, from a $9 million contract from the National Institutes of Health, and is a joint effort between the University of Pittsburgh (School of Medicine and School of Arts & Sciences), Carnegie Mellon, and the University of Michigan. [January 2006]

2005

Optoelectronic Computing Research Group Installs Clean Room
The newest addition to the research facilities in Sennott Square is a 300 square foot, class 1000 clean room facility in the fifth floor optical computing lab. Dr. Chiarulli and Dr. Levitan use this facility in their research on high-speed optical and electronic data links for chip-to-chip and network-on-chip applications. [August 2005]

Parsing Arabic Dialects
This summer, Assistant Professor Rebecca Hwa, along with researchers from Columbia University, the University of Maryland and the University of Amsterdam, is participating in an NSF-sponsored workshop on Parsing Arabic Dialects. Students from Stanford University, The University of Pittsburgh, Johns Hopkins University and Georgia Tech are also participating in the project. [August 2005]

Kurt VanLehn Presents LearnLab in D.C.Kurt VanLehn, a professor in Pitt's Department of Computer Science and codirector of the Pitt-Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center (PSLC), represented the University at the June 21 Exhibition of the Coalition for National Science Funding in Washington, D.C. [June 2005]

2004

Sangyeun Paul ChoSangyeun Cho joined the Department of Computer Science in the fall of 2004. He received his BS in computer engineering from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea in 1994, and his PhD in computer science from the University of Minnesota in 2002. [August 2004]

Daniel MosséDr. Daniel Mossé became a full Professor in the Computer Science Department in 2004. Here, he discusses how he came to the department, his love for teaching, and his (so far) fruitless campaign to squeeze more time into a 24-hour day.[August 2004]

Panos ChrysanthisDr. Panos K. Chrysanthis became officially the ninth full Professor in our Department on 1.1.2004. He is the co-director of the the Advanced Data Management Technologies (ADMT) lab which focuses on innovative theories, paradigms, and applications in network-centric data management. [January 2004]